[Samba] samba, pdc, ldap question

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Feb 11 07:51:15 GMT 2004


On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 09:37, moof48 at temple.edu wrote:
> Do I need them in cleartext?  All I have are all of them in 
> {crypt}.  Also..  Do I actually need the posix stuff as 
> well.  

You require the posix stuff, but not the posix password (for samba's
purpose at least).

You require the NT and LM hashes - these cannot be recovered from crypt
passwords, you must get them from an existing windows or samba system,
or the plaintext password from the user.

Andrew Bartlett

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